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Who are the most aristocratic writers?

If you're familiar with Nietzsche, you'll know that "aristocratic" is not equivalent to "his dad owns a dealership" and not necessarily even "he's a dook."

If you're starving or destitute, you can't have the aristocratic mentality, and neither can you if you have to work hard or on a rigid schedule.
After a certain measure of independence and inservility is acquired, and it is felt to be rock solid, there is room for this mentality of abundance, unstinginess, aloof indulgence to others, entitlement, uprightness, and unwillingness to stoop or slink.

The Book of the New Sun is actually a good example of this noble attitude. I'm sure it's more conscious than most historical examples, being a backward looking book, but it rings true.

What else comes to mind?

>> No.6949570

Julius Evola obviously

>> No.6949576

>dook

ok u made me blow a sniff out my nose, gud1 op

>> No.6949579

If you're familiar with Plato you'll know that, too, and also a lot of other things that Nietzsche can't talk about because of brain cancer or syphilis or whatever

>> No.6949592

do you mean the writers themselves or the work? if the first, I think Gabriele D'Annunzio and Renzo Novatore are the most "aristocratic" individuals to have picked up pen and paper, regarding their lifestlyes

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>>6949541
Ernst Junger

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>>6949541
wow

>> No.6949660

Mishima has something of an aristocratic voice, imo. Spring Snow is probably my favorite of his and there's some balance between the noble and the aristocratic douchebag. You can see how this develops into the late Honda.

The affectations of Maldoror are ok-tier for a little colony dweller like the "Comte".

What else... it's hard to tell between the burgoueis (Fitzgerald, Mann) and the truly aristocratic.

Tolstoy, obviously; and I believed every single word from Huysmans (A Rebours) to be that of a patrician noble.

Oh, Dune, of course. I agree with TBotNS-.

>>6949606
Lots of German writers have this feeling for some reason. Hesse's Demian comes to mind.

>> No.6949681

You plebs not knowing of Giuseppe di Lampedusa, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly and Villiers de L'Isle-Adam.

>> No.6950077

>>6949592
Ideally they should be hard to separate.
But since this is an age of extreme emphasis on discretion, humility, and conformity with harmless little sandboxes of acceptable deviations, the work will have to do.

>> No.6951039

Ageru

>> No.6951178

>>6949541
What about transcendentalists?

Rilke, Donna Tartt, Edward Abbey.

>> No.6951578

>>6949592
>Novatore
>Forsakes privileged life to be a terrorist
>Abandons his wife and child
>Gets killed in a shootout with the cops
>Aristocratic

I like Novatore, but cmon m8. Nietzsche worship ain't the same as being an "aristocrat."